December 20, 2009

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OK, I could resist throwing this one in. Sure, a pedal steel isn’t REALLY a guitar. A bass fed through a delay pedal isn’t really a bass solo, but what the heck … it’s got PIGS!

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Apophis

Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid, was believed by scientists to have a greater than 2 percent chance of hitting earth.

Scientists have since scaled back their predictions — they now believe the odds of it crashing into earth are 1 in 250,000 — but astronomers do expect it to come startlingly close to the earth’s surface, whizzing past our planet just 18,300 miles away in April 2029.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a simulation of the asteroid’s path past earth. See it in action (from Apophis’ perspective) below.

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